Wyatt finally awoke from her viral induced sick bed & came on a run with me. It was wonderful. Beautiful outdoors. Clouds low in the distance- we pretended they were really mountains. At one point, it was Ayers Rock and we were out sweating in the heat of the outback. It was like a "Mr Kruger's delusionally inspired daydream."
Our 6 miles grew into 7, and then we had to run to the bottom of the overpass & make it .18 more. Marvelous, simply marvelous.
Speaking of marvelous, I woke up around 1:30 this morning and went out to see the eclipse. It was still about an hour away, but I walked around the 'hood and watched the earth's shadow slowly creep across the moon. There were lots of clouds out, so it was more like a "peek" at the moon for 1 minute, then wait 4 minutes to see it again. Totally worth it. When the moon finally was all in the earth's shadow, it turned a magnificient rusy red color. I laid on the grass in my front yard and just stared at it for as long as I could. I had a good 10 minute window with no clouds at all.
Finally, the clouds came rolling in again, and the cold was starting to creep into my bones, so I went in & went to bed. I am so glad I drug myself out at 1:30 to witness nature "do her thing." | 